Full Description
This volume examines the ways in literacy has been used as a weapon and a means for settler colonialism, challenging colonized definitions of literacy and centring relationships as key to broadening understandings.
It begins by confronting the multiple ways that settler colonialism has used literacy and definitions of literacy as a gatekeeper to participation in society. In response to settler colonialism's violent acts of extraction, displacement, and replacement enacted upon the land, the resources, the people, and understandings of literacy, the editors propose a unique approach to decolonizing understandings of literacy through a triangulation of disruption, reclamation, and remembering relationships. This is enacted and explored through a range of diverse chapter contributions, written in the form of stories, poems, artworks, theatres, and essays, allowing the authentic voices of the authors to shine through, and opening up the English Language Arts as a space for engagement and interpretation with diverse, racialized understandings of literacy.
Disrupting Eurocentric, colonized understandings that narrowly define literacy as reading and writing the colonial word, and advancing the movement to decolonize education, it will be of key interest to scholars, researchers, and educators with interest in literacy education, decolonizing education, anti-racist education, inclusive education, land-based literacy, and arts-based literacy.
Contents
1. Introduction: Decolonizing Literacies. 2. Artist Statement. 3. Wa'gwan: Graffiti Art. 4. Decolonizing Literacies: A Door Back into Ourselves. DISRUPTING. 5. I Know You Are, and I Am Sorry: An Inquiry Into Anger and Hope. 6. A Reminder of Who I Was. 7. Finding Our Way Through Decolonizing English for Second Language Literacies: A Call for Multiple Approaches of Knowing and Being in Curriculum. 8. 3 Poems: Listen Again - A Journey of Discovering Oneself While Listening to the Stories of Others. Poem 1: English Class. RECLAIMING. 9. Skoden: Graffiti Art. 10. Reclaiming Literacy: Embodying the Stories the Land Reveals. 11. Writing it small-Living it LOUD!!!: Uplifting Decoloniality through Hip Hop Literacy for the Mind Body & Soul. 12. Literacies of Love: Exploring Love, Value, and Respect in Diverse Learning Spaces. 13. 3 Poems: Listen Again - A Journey of Discovering Oneself While Listening to the Stories of Others. Poem 2: Live Loud in white walls. REMEMBERING RELATIONSHIP. 14. What Does It Mean to Read/Write Graffiti as Literacy? 15. Anti-Racism Literacies: A Place of Belonging for Racialized Students. 16. Kistónnoon Ihtaisap'op Tsinikssinistsi - Our Way is Through Our Stories. 17. Reflecting Through the Fourth Wall. 18. Un-settling Settler Allyship: A Response to Reflecting Through the Fourth Wall. 19. Moving Beyond Awareness Toward Action: An Interview with Dr. April Baker-Bell. 20. 3 Poems: Listen Again - A Journey of Discovering Oneself While Listening to the Stories of Others. Poem 3: Listen. 21. Conclusion: Reflecting on Decolonizing Literacies: Remembering Relationships with Each Other, Our Ancestors, and the World
